Senior Golang Microservices Engineer (DRWN)

Job title – Senior Golang / Microservices Engineer

Client Location – Europe (remote)

Remote work offering – 100%

Client Industry – Pharmaceutical

Contract Length – 6 months (Extendable)

Contract type – Freelance

Project focus

Joining an established engineering team to design, build and maintain a complex, distributed microservices platform written in Go. You’ll own services end to end, from architecture through to performance tuning and production observability, while helping shape technical direction and raise the bar for the wider team.

Key skills and Experience required

• Senior-level engineer with substantial commercial experience delivering production systems in Go
• Deep, hands-on experience designing, developing and maintaining complex microservices and distributed system architectures
• Strong unit and integration testing practice, with a track record in performance optimisation, troubleshooting and scaling services
• Experience with code quality and observability tooling such as SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry (monitoring, logging and tracing)
• Background in established engineering teams, contributing to architecture decisions, carrying out code reviews and mentoring other developers
• Able to clearly explain technical decisions in depth: what was built, how and why

If this role is of interest, please apply with an updated CV.

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